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TIL the number people are most likely to state when asked to give a random number between 0 and 100 is 37.

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E1OEx TIL that Russian has a similar proverb to "Necessity is the Mother of Invention" that literally translates to "poor people are crafty"
kOa0E TIL The difference between different types of wetlands. A bog is acidic while a fen is alkaline. A swamp has vegetation that consists of trees or other woody plants whereas a marsh has other forms of vegetation.
YMZd TIL Martin Luther King and Anne Frank were born in the same year. If alive, they both would be 84
kJLod TIL that on Labor Day weekend 1969, in Great Barrington, MA (and a few other Berkshire towns), over 220 + people claimed to have seen a UFO, and three people claimed to have been abducted! At one point, the town even created a monument, and the event was recognized by their historical society!
919Q TIL that the majority of computers do not measure time in hours or days but instead use “Unix Time” which is the exact number of seconds that have passed since January 1st 1970. The current Unix time is 1467042820.